The Teletype Artwork on these pages
is the product of many different authors and
artists over the years. Recent efforts on the
part of Bob Roehrig, John Foust, Tom Jennings,
and John Sheetz have sparked new interest in this
art form.

We
have adopted a minor modification in the file
extensions used to identify the pieces. A .PIX
file indicates a one-pass print mode. A .POX file
identifies an overstrike ormultiple pass type of
picture.

Don
Royer, WA6PIR, was considered an authority
andmaster of RTTY Art. Don's legacy will continue
to be appreciated for many years. Don wrote a
short piece entitled "RTTY ART Made
EASY" which was published in the November
1970 RTTY Journal. We present that article for
your enjoyment.

John Foust, of The Jefferson
Computer Museum, has also assembled an excellent
dissertation on, and examples of, Teletype and
ASCII Art. He has included a number of thumbnails
of examples of some highly detailed pieces of
this art form. Please visit his exhibit at:

For a very well done website
centered around the Textual Arts, we urge you to
visit Joan Stark's ASCII Art Website. She goes
well before and after the era of RTTY Art, and we
think you would enjoy reading the fruits of her
extensive and continuous research . Have your
headphones handy or your speakers on, and get
ready for an interesting visit, including a
backrub for the eyes and ears.

The application
runs on a Window95 or later OS and uses standard
RS-232 ports. It will capture BAUDOT or ASCII and
save it to a file, as well as display the picture
or text on the screen with overstrike capability.
It will send an ASCII file to the teletype
machine with the appropriate ASCII to BAUDOT
conversion at most common Baud rates. It also can
function as a standard terminal.

If you use the right Mouse
button to do a "Save
Target As...", then you can save the
raw picture to your disk. If you import the
picture to Notepad or another editor, you may
loose the overstrike feature (i.e. carriage
return without a line feed).